Muhsin Yunus

Muhsin Yunus (12 July 1978-14 January 2015) was a commander of Iraq's Special Groups during the Iraqi Civil War.

Biography
Muhsin Yunus was born on 12 July 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq to a Shi'ite Muslim family. Yunus became a member of the Shi'ite resistance to Iraq in 2003 during the Iraq War, and he fought against the anti-Shi'ite Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. He later fought against the United States after Iran sent him arms and $800,000 a month to fight the "enemies of Islam", and led one of the Special Groups out of Baghdad. Many members of his cell were arrested or killed by the US Army and Iraqi security forces, and his group assimilated smaller groups in order to keep its numbers at an acceptable amount. After the US withdrawal in 2011 and the start of the Iraqi Civil War between the government, Shi'ite rebels, and the growing al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)/Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other Sunni insurgent groups, he became a member of the coalition government between Nouri al-Maliki and Muqtada al-Sadr. Appointed as a police chief, he fought against the ISIS militants and their allies in northern Iraq. He was killed by a car bomb on 14 January 2015 in Sadr City, Baghdad.